[IntLawProfessors] Second International Symposium for Environment Judges: 'Environmental Adjudication in the 21st Century

[Don Anton]

Dear Colleagues,

 
APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING 

We would like to draw your attention and invite you to attend the Second International Symposium for Environment Judges: 'Environmental Adjudication in the 21st Century', to be held on 11th and 12th April 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. 


The Symposium is generously supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand and the University of Otago, and brings together international experts on environmental adjudication to discuss and debate the challenges for environmental adjudication in the coming decades.  We are delighted to announce that the keynote speeches will be given by Lord Carnwath, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, and Professor George ‘Rock’ Pring and Catherine ‘Kitty’ Pring, University of Denver, Environment Courts and Tribunals Study. The plenary session on 11th April will be held at 'The Pullman Hotel', cnr Princes Street and Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland and the list of speakers includes:

	• Right Honourable Lord Robert Carnwath, UK Supreme Court
	• Professor Emeritus George (Rock) Pring and Kitty Pring, University of Denver
	• Honourable Justice Brian Preston SC, New South Wales Land and Environment Court
	• Honourable Justice Samson Okong’o, Environment Court of Kenya
	• His Honour Judge Michael E Rackemann, Planning and Environment Court, Queensland
	• Honourable Michael D Wilson, Supreme Court of Hawai’i
	• Professor Denise Antolini, University of Hawai'i
	• Chief Justice Rafael Asenjo Zegers, Environment Court of Chile
	• Dr Aine Ryall, University of Cork and Aarhus Compliance Committee
	• Dr Gitanjali Nain Gill, University of Northumbria
	• Ben Boer, Distinguished Professor at the Research Institute of Environmental Law, University of Wuhan and Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney Law School
	• Principal Judge Laurie Newhook, NZEnvC

Registration for the plenary session on 11th April 2017 is available via the Environmental-Adjudication.org website (https://www.environmental-adjudication.org).  Alternatively, participants may contact the administrative team at the University of Otago and request to be invoiced (please contact Melanie Black on melanie.black at otago.ac.nz). The conference fee is NZ$250 (and includes morning and afternoon tea, and lunch).  

A workshop will be held at the Environment Court of New Zealand, Auckland, on 12th April 2017 for invited participants only. The workshop will facilitate an intense dialogue between adjudicators and academic experts, and lay the basis for a forthcoming publication. If you are interested in joining the workshop please e-mail Associate Professor Ceri Warnock directly (ceri.warnock at otago.ac.nz).

Further information concerning the Symposium will be posted on https://www.environmental-adjudication.org in due course.

 

We very much look forward to welcoming you to Auckland in April 2017 for what promises to be a stimulating and rewarding symposium.

 

Kind regards,



Judge Laurie Newhook,

Principal Judge of the New Zealand Environment Court
 

and

 

Ceri Warnock,

Associate Professor of Law, University of Otago